The Singularity Is Near might just mean we amuse ourselves in new ways

Here’s another article about how the machines will take over and make everything better.

It could draw on huge amounts of data effortlessly. It wouldn’t even take breaks to play Farmville.

Funny, but seriously…
Who’s to say the evolution of “intelligence” doesn’t involve the evolution of play… in fact in might be necessary.
not quite sure why every contemplation of a super smart singularity future simply involves bigger problems being solved. history doesn’t suggest that’s how it works.

it’s plausible that other systems in the universe have already passed a singularity. and perhaps we’re their little toy. and what they did with their super intelligence was set up an experiment to see how things develop. their own farmville.

it’s also plausible that ever increasing intelligence in the human sense doesn’t amount to squat in the multi verse. Maybe the multi verse just does what it does and intelligence is a side effect that burns out like a super nova… maybe it’s common, maybe it’s rare…

the problem with chasing the singularity is we probably don’t have much control over how things evolve. Can’t say I want the machines to take over or not. I’m pretty sure I won’t know the difference when and if they do, just like I didn’t notice how The Internet changed us and I couldn’t really prepare for it. Other generations could say that about birth control, electricity, the printing press, telescope, the wheel, whatever. Again, things happen. we behave. then occasionally we notice, “Gee, looks like something changed”.